In this role, MacNeil will play a central role in delivering service to clients and assisting the partners in practice development and administration while tackling client responsibilities in overseeing certified audits and providing tax, accounting and management advisory services. He will be responsible for managing client account tasks by providing tax, accounting and management consulting services for corporate and individual clients.

MacNeil has more than 14 years of experience in the accounting and taxation fields. Most recently, he served as tax supervisor at Restivo Monacelli LLP in Providence, R.I., where he prepared and reviewed various types of tax returns, handled IRS and state audits and tax notices, assisted clients in the process of applying for economic grants and tax credits and performed tax planning for clients.

MacNeil, who holds a CPA license in Massachusetts, has his bachelor of arts degree with a concentration in accounting from UMass Boston where he graduated magna cum laude, ranking 37th out of a class of more than 1,000 students. He received his MBA and MST from Suffolk University where he graduated, once again, magna cum laude.

MacNeil is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Mass. Society of CPAs.

Headquartered in Worcester, Shepherd & Goldstein is a certified public accounting and business development firm. It has regional offices in Framingham, Milford and West Yarmouth.

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The Training Associates, a Westborough-based provider of training professionals and solutions, recently appointed Scott Tate of Hopkinton senior director of marketing.

Tate will be leading the marketing team and its initiatives.

He is a technology marketing and sales veteran with extensive expertise and experience in messaging and positioning, demand generation, sales enablement and marketing strategy.

Tate most recently was an independent marketing and messaging consultant to technology companies. Previously, he served as director of product marketing at Dimensional Insight in Burlington, director of product marketing at Brainshark in Waltham and vice president of marketing at TotalView Technologies in Natick.

He earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and semiotics (communications) from Brown University.

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Enservio, a Needham-based provider of software and services to property insurers, recently added two new members to its executive team to bolster the company’s marketing and sales efforts.

Christine Washburn of Sudbury joins Enservio from SolidWorks and will lead Enservio’s marketing team as senior vice president of marketing. Gary Blair of Florida joins Enservio from Oracle and will lead the enterprise sales team as senior vice president of sales.

Washburn brings more than 20 years of marketing experience to her new role at Enservio.

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She will lead Enservio’s marketing and demand generation strategy to expand awareness of Enservio and its solutions within the property insurance industry, among claims adjusters and policyholders.

Prior to Enservio, Washburn served as vice president of marketing for DS SolidWorks, a $500 million computer aided design software category company, helping to grow the SolidWorks community to approximately 2 million users.

Washburn has also led strategic marketing efforts as vice president of marketing for such software and technology companies as Silverback Technologies (now Dell) and Concord Communications (Computer Associates).